Some background: what are chat bots?

A chatbot is a piece of software that interacts with a customer or user to directly answer their questions. It uses existing data or information coupled with artificial intelligence to respond in a human-like way, guiding the user to a solution.

There are many examples of live chat bots in this exciting, emerging field. A chatboat could give you travel directions, tell you when its next going to rain in your area, or help you contest parking tickets. It could book you a flight and hotel, or act as a free lawyer to help the homeless get housing . The HBO series Westworld has even launched a bot to help you interact with the (fictional) holiday park!

Who should attend?

Academics and students in the field of chatbots and artificial intelligence

Coders

Data specialists

Front-end and UX designers

Bloggers and social media practitioners

Anyone with an interest in getting involved in creating bots even for fun!

What you will do?

You will create mixed teams to workshop chatbot solutions to real world issues. Maybe these will building on the outputs of previous work we’ve done at CodeTheCity. Through rapid prototyping you will create new applications and have some fun in the process.

We’ll show you new techniques for service design, idea generation, prototyping, and rapid iterative application development – and you will show other participants some tricks and approaches, too. We’ll share knowledge and learning.

You might even get a Tshirt, and we can guarantee the best catering of any weekend workshop in the city!

To book a free ticket visit our Eventbrite page But be quick, tickets will go swiftly!

All attendees will get a year’s free membership of the Open Data Institute.